[All] Fw: Scrap the bad and support the good.

Lanteigne water.lulu at yahoo.ca
Sun Mar 22 15:14:25 EDT 2020 

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   ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Lanteigne" <water.lulu at yahoo.ca> To: "Catherine Fife - CO" <cfife-co at ndp.on.ca>, "Bardish Chagger" <bardish.chagger at parl.gc.ca>, "Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l\u2019Ontario" <premier at ontario.ca>, "Justin Trudeau" <justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca>, "chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca" <chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca>, "Elizabeth May" <elizabeth.may at parl.gc.ca>, "Jagmeet Singh" <jagmeet.singh at parl.gc.ca>, "Blanchet Yves-François - Député" <yves-francois.blanchet at parl.gc.ca>, "perrygrunenberg at shaw.ca" <perrygrunenberg at shaw.ca>, "Scott Cavan" <scott.cavan at coo.org> Cc:  Sent: Sun., 22 Mar. 2020 at 3:13 p.m. Subject: Scrap the bad and support the good.  Dear Prime Ministers and Ministers and Chiefs
Currently we see the shortfalls of the Covid-19 issues and how challenging things are. Now imagine if Ontario were facing a nuclear disaster.
I am writing you today avoid that issue. It is time to close Pickering Nuclear. It is also time to transition away from nuclear energy in Ontario. The transition to safer energy is possible by freeing up funds to support green energy.
 If we had smart grid systems electric vechicals can easily be used to store energy to offset the need for big infrastructure solutions. We can use Hydro Quebec power. We can make public transportation free to offset the need for car ownership and this would assist low income and aging populations. 
Convert Oshawa's car plants to create clean energy fleets.
Implement the creation of localized hydro power generation using localized water infrastructure. Here is an example from Halifax. 
Rentricity installed a 31 kw turbine that powers 25 homes and earns $30,000/year in Halifax NS.  Their power generation reclaims energy from existing Municipal water distribution systems and is 75% compatible with existing systems in Canada today and it doesn't kill fish.  The infrastructure pays for itself and lasts up to 40 years. With subsidies in place payoff was just 17 years. We must not let abuse of dominance and anti competitive behaviour negate support for these much needed technologies. 
More than a pipe dream: How turning on your tap could create electricity | CBC News  
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More than a pipe dream: How turning on your tap could create electricity | CBC News
 
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the concept of 'in-pipe hydro' and visualize just how many people worldwide live in cities.
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I propose ending the tribunal powers of the Canadian Energy Regulator, Ontario Power Generation as well as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Council.  These quasi jurisdictional systems lack oversight by the Ontario Ombudsman and Federal Ombudsman. It lacks accountability and they are exercising decisions of deep duty and Indigenous consultations without training or reasonable non biased Crown participation. 
They are rigged systems designed to hold power rather than to serve the actual public interest. They have exempted oil, gas and nuclear from adhering to the same standards, laws and regulations of green energy technologies and this injustice and abuse of dominance has to stop. 
CN and CP rail police have demonstrated an unreasonable irresponsible and dangerous system of corporate dominance and judicial bias that needs to end of we are to honestly serve the public interest. They profit from fossil fuel transport yet fail to reasonably investigate accidents. This article speaks to that. 

Police not probing recent rail disasters, crude oil derailments, deaths for possible negligence | CBC News  
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Police not probing recent rail disasters, crude oil derailments, deaths for possible negligence | CBC News
 
Public police forces are choosing not to investigate major accidents at CN and Canadian Pacific Railway, including recent crude oil train crashes and deadly derailments, a CBC News investigation into Canada’s rail system has found.
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I want an end to oil and gas subsidies. I want an end to rail police. I want an end to the CER, CNSC and OPG serving as tribunals while acting as promoter and regulator for fossil fuel sectors. The poor decisions of Jason Kenny and Doug Ford are failing to reasonably protect the public interest when it comes to the promotion and inclusion of green energy solutions. Their attack against the carbon tax and bias towards devastatingly destructive and uneconomical fossil fuel sectors is outrageous.  

The Ford cuts to renewable subsidies did more damage then good. It cost Ontario taxpayers $231 Million to scrap renewable energy funding. 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5364815?__twitter_impression=true

Meanwhile in Alberta they are including former Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a 12 person  economic recovery panel in Alberta.
Former PM Stephen Harper joins Alberta’s new 12-member economic recovery council  
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Former PM Stephen Harper joins Alberta’s new 12-member economic recovery council
 
The panel, led by economist Jack Mintz, will advise Premier Jason Kenney on Alberta’s recovery as it grapples with a severe economic downturn
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The simple truth is Mr.Harper was a serial abuser of power. He should not have a say in further governance issues in Canada. The public voted him out and he should stay out. 

Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled | The Tyee  
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Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled | The Tyee
 
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
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Personally speaking I already grieve for the  loss of lives that will also happen as a result of delaying climate action. We can't undo what he did. We can only strive to mitigate the consequences. 

With the climate crisis we must transition to renewables faster. Just because solar panels are cheaper does not warrant reducing benefits of installation. That math was flawed because it externalized the scale of the growing health and economic climate related costs we currently face. The illness costs of smog will go up as aging populations becomes more vulnerable to the effects of rising temperatures and pollution.  It is time to restore incentives for green energy to do the right thing.
Thank you.
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower AveWaterloo OntN2V 2L2 
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